Flowers and Giant Robots

This is one of the sunflowers my son and I planted this spring. It’s about nine feet tall, and stands in a row with other sunflowers along the south side of the house. I’m sort of in love with these big, happy flowers, the tallest of which is about ten feet tall (3-ish meters).

The plants are so tall now, they’re beginning to droop a little under the weight of the flowers and they haven’t even seeded yet. To help them not come crashing down, I tied them all back with bright cotton yarn I norma...